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sport

See also: Sport, SPORT, spórt, šport, and sport.

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.

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sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)

  2. (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
  3. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
    Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
    The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.
  4. (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
    You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
  5. (archaic) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby
  6. (archaic) Mockery, making fun; derision.
  7. (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
    • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
    • a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper:
      Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
  8. (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
  9. (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.
    • 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎[1]:
      At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
  10. (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
  11. (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
  12. (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
  13. (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
    • 1924 July, Ellis Butler, “The Little Tin Godlets”, in The Rotarian‎[2], volume 25, number 1, Rotary International, page 14:
      "Say, sport!" he would say briskly.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
  14. Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
    Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.
  15. (archaic) Play; idle jingle.
    • 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
      An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.

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From plural sports:

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Verb

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sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)

  1. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
    children sporting on the green
  2. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
    Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
    • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious:
      He sports with his own life.
  3. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
    Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes;  he was sporting a new wound from the combat
    • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
      But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
    • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
    • 2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times‎[3]:
      He was especially happy to see one of the most important discoveries make it to the screen: dinosaurs that sported feathers. But judging from the emails he has been receiving, some moviegoers did not share his excitement.
  4. (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
  5. (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
  6. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
  7. To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
    • 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication:
      more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss
  8. (transitive, archaic) To close (a door).
    • 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint:
      There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.

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  • (sportsman, gambler): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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Czech

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Noun

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sport m inan

  1. sport

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Declension of sport (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative sport sporty
genitive sportu sportů
dative sportu sportům
accusative sport sporty
vocative sporte sporty
locative sportu sportech
instrumental sportem sporty

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Further reading

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  • “sport”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “sport”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “sport”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

  1. (countable) a sport; (uncountable) sports
    Mijn buurman is dol op sport. ― My neighbour is keen on sports.
    Darts is de gezondste sport op aarde. ― Darts is the most healthy sport on Earth.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)

  1. rung, step on a ladder
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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sport

  1. Lua error in Module:table/slice at line 21: attempt to compare nil with number

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Estonian

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Etymology

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From German Sport, from English sport.

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sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)

  1. sport, sports

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Declension of sport (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
singular plural
nominative sport spordid
accusative nom.
gen. spordi
genitive sportide
partitive sporti sporte
sportisid
illative sporti
spordisse 		sportidesse
spordesse
inessive spordis sportides
spordes
elative spordist sportidest
spordest
allative spordile sportidele
spordele
adessive spordil sportidel
spordel
ablative spordilt sportidelt
spordelt
translative spordiks sportideks
spordeks
terminative spordini sportideni
essive spordina sportidena
abessive spordita sportideta
comitative spordiga sportidega

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French

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Etymology

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Earlier 19th century, borrowed from English sport. At first also pronounced with a final /t/.

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sport m (plural sports)

  1. sport

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Hungarian

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  • IPA(key): [ˈʃport]
  • Hyphenation: sport
  • Rhymes: -ort

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sport (plural sportok)

  1. sport

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative sport sportok
accusative sportot sportokat
dative sportnak sportoknak
instrumental sporttal sportokkal
causal-final sportért sportokért
translative sporttá sportokká
terminative sportig sportokig
essive-formal sportként sportokként
essive-modal — —
inessive sportban sportokban
superessive sporton sportokon
adessive sportnál sportoknál
illative sportba sportokba
sublative sportra sportokra
allative sporthoz sportokhoz
elative sportból sportokból
delative sportról sportokról
ablative sporttól sportoktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		sporté sportoké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		sportéi sportokéi
Possessive forms of sport
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sportom sportjaim
2nd person sing. sportod sportjaid
3rd person sing. sportja sportjai
1st person plural sportunk sportjaink
2nd person plural sportotok sportjaitok
3rd person plural sportjuk sportjaik

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Further reading

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  • sport in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English sport. Doublet of diporto.

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sport m (invariable)

  1. sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
  2. hobby, pastime
    fare qualcosa per sport ― to do something for fun

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Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sport.

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sport m inan

  1. sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)

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Declension of sport
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative sport sporta sporty
Genitive sporta sportowu sportow
Dative sportoju sportoma sportam
Accusative sport sporta sporty
Instrumental sportom sportoma sportami
Locative sporśe sportoma sportach

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  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “sport”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

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sport m (plural sports)

  1. (Jersey) sport (physical activity pitting two or more opponents against each other)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From English sport.

Noun

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sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)

  1. sport
    Synonym: idrett
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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sport

  1. past participle of spore

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From English sport.

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sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)

  1. sport
    Synonym: idrett

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Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sport.

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sport m inan

  1. sport

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Declension of sport
singular plural
nominative sport sporty
genitive sportu sportów
dative sportowi sportom
accusative sport sporty
instrumental sportem sportami
locative sporcie sportach
vocative sporcie sporty

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Further reading

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  • sport in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sport in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sport.

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sport n (plural sporturi)

  1. sport

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Declension of sport
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative sport sportul sporturi sporturile
genitive-dative sport sportului sporturi sporturilor
vocative sportule sporturilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Borrowed from English sport.

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spȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling спо̏рт)

  1. sport

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Declension of sport
singular plural
nominative spȍrt spòrtovi
genitive sporta sportova
dative sportu sportovima
accusative sport sportove
vocative sporte sportovi
locative sportu sportovima
instrumental sportom sportovima

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Further reading

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  • “sport”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.

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sport c

  1. (uncountable) sports
  2. (countable) a sport
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Declension of sport
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sport sports
definite sporten sportens
plural indefinite sporter sporters
definite sporterna sporternas
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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sport

  1. supine of spörja

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West Frisian

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Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.

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sport c (plural sporten)

  1. sport (physical activity)

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  • “sport”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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